{"id":236433,"date":"2016-09-14T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236433"},"modified":"2016-09-14T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:00:51","slug":"cnmi-u14-team-continue-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cnmi-u14-team-continue-training\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI U14 team to continue training"},"content":{"rendered":"
The CNMI U14 Boys National Team players line up during the opening ceremony for the AFC U14 Regional (East) Festival of Football 2016 held last week at the Xianghe National Football Training Center in Beijing, China. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CNMI U14 Boys National Team that just returned from China after playing in the AFC U14 Regional (East) Festival of Football 2016 will resume training for upcoming tournaments next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will just take a break for about two weeks and then go back to the field to train. Coach Seki (Northern Mariana Islands Football Association technical director and CNMI men\u2019s team head coach Kiyoshi Sekiguchi) wants to keep the team intact as some of them are eligible to play for the U15 squad and others for the U14 team in another festival next year,\u201d said Jershwin Angeles, who called the shots for the U14 crew that participated in last week\u2019s festival at the Xianghe National Football Training Center in Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will start with a once a week training as coach Seki and I are also working with our boys U17 team,\u201d Angeles added.<\/p>\n

The CNMI U14 team, which had Michael Rojas, Sebastien Manabat, Mark Salamat, Kirt Andon, Ichiro Borja, Terrence Montenegro, John Guiller Canape, Jamin Elliot, Edward Cho, Mark Esalan, Joshua Waldon, Brandon Delos Reyes, Christian Aldan, Kirro Batino, Thomas Benavente, John Paul Cruz, Joshua Mendez, and Eun Syu Hahn as members, returned from China last Monday after playing four games in the festival.<\/p>\n

The Teen Ayuyus dueled Guam in their first game and forced a draw, 2-2. Up next for Angeles\u2019 wards was Japan, which handed the CNMI a 17-0 beating. The Commonwealth bets were also routed by South Korea, 14-0, before ending the two-game scoring drought after making two goals against Mongolia in their last game in the AFC event. Mongolia tallied seven goals to deny the CNMI the elusive win.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course everybody wants to win so the boys were a bit sad when we lost to Mongolia. But, I told them there\u2019s nothing to be ashamed of because they gave all their best in the game and in our first three matches. South Korea and Japanese are really strong teams, their skills are way up there,\u201d Angeles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost the last three matches, but those defeats will eventually help our players because after the festival they were able to realize how strong the other teams are and what they should to do keep up with them. We can\u2019t catch up with the other teams\u2019 height, but in skills and speed, we can. I just hope after the festival, our players will push themselves to develop their skills and speed more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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